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tary of State, who in 1666 presented a magnificent
silver trumpet and contributed largely to the expense
of rebuilding the College at the end of that century ;
John Michel, who founded eight fellowships, four
scholarships and eight exhibitions, now merged in
Eglesfeild's foundation ; Lady Elizabeth Hastings,
who gave an estate in Yorkshire, which now supports
more than twenty-five exhibitioners ; Robert Mason,
who gave £30,000 to the Library and so raised it to
one of the highest places among the libraries of
Oxford ; and Sir Edward Repps Jodrell, who in these
last days has founded five scholarships.

Among its most distinguished alumni have been
Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London, the author of
Codex Juris Ecclesise Anglicanoe ; the antiquaries
Archbishop Nicolson, Bishop Tanner and Edward
Rowe Mores ; Bishop Van Mildert of Durham ; Arch-
bishop Thomson of York ; John Mill, the editor of
the Greek Testament ; H alley the astronomer,
Mitford the historian of Greece, Jeremy Bentham and
Lord Jeffrey.

About two hundred years ago the College, which is
represented in Loggan's print, was entirely pulled
down and gradually replaced by the present buildings.

Through the liberality of the Corporation of
the City a frontage to the High Street was
course of sixty years the
buildings were completed,
taken in hand by Provost
south fronts of the front
quadrangle were the last to be finished. The woodcut,
by Green, shewing the eastern side about 1730 shows
the ruins of the east window of the old chapel before
they were finally cleared away. The cast of the
Florentine Boar, given to the College by Sir Roger
Newdigate, and shown in the sketch from Ingram of
the Upper Library before the old reading desks were

obtained, and in the
whole of the present
The library was first
Halton ; the east and

removed to make room for new bookcases, is now
on loan in the University Art Galleries in the Taylor
Building. The design for the south front of the Hall
and Chapel is said to have been sketched for Hawkes-
moore by Sir Christopher Wren.

J. R. MAGRATH, Provost.

For a much fuller account of this college by the
provost, see the " Colleges of Oxford," by A. Clark,
M.A., Methuen, London, 1891.

of All Hallows, Bread Street, Lo'ndon, 1480, and of
All Hallows, Lombard Street, 1482, bishop of
St. Davids 1483, of Salisbury 1485, and of Win-
chester 1493, elected archbishop of Canterbury
22 Jan., 1500-1, but died 5 days after, before the
translation could be perfected, his will dated 25 Jan. ,
1500-r, proved 20 May following. See Foster's
Alumni Oxonienses, 880.

14. Bainbrigg, Christopher, M.A., provost 1495,
born (as 'tis said) at Hylton, near Appleby, West-
morland ; the intimate friend of Morton, arch-
bishop of Canterbury ; prebend of South Grantham,
resigned Feb., 1485, of Chardstock i486, and of
Horton i486 (all) in the church of Salisbury, preb.
of North Kelsey, in the church of Lincoln, 1496 ;
LL.D. Bologna and incorporated at Cambridge;
rector of Aller, Somerset, 1497-1505, treasurer of
St. Paul's 1497-1503, prebendary of Strenshall 1503,
and dean of York 1503, master of the rolls 1504,
dean of Windsor 1505 ; of the king's council and
almoner to Henry VII ; bishop of Durham 1507,
archbishop of York 1508 ; ambassador to Rome
1509, created a cardinal March, 1511, poisoned at

1674, vice-chancellor 1679-82, 1685-6; prebendary
of St. David's 1662, archdeacon of Brecknock 1672,
and of Oxford 1675, rector of Weyhill, Hants, 1679,
and of Charlton-upon-Otmore, Oxon, 1685, until his
death 21 July, 1704, buried in the college chapel.
See Al. Ox. 638.

Maspero, Gaston, hon. fellow Queen's 1887, created
D.C.L. 22 June, 87; professor of Egyptology in
the college de France, sometime keeper of the Boulak
museum, born in Paris 24 June, 46. See Men and
Women of the Time.

Fortnum, Charles Drury Edward, born at Hornsey,
Middlesex, March, 1820 ; s. Charles, of London,
created D.C.L. 26 June, 89, hon. fellow 92; f.s.a.
58, a trustee of the British museum 89, and a great
benefactor to the University. See Men and Women
of the Time.

THE bedchamber of the black prince, demolished about 1720.— From an engraving by Skelton.